Windows 10: Problem with Creative soundcard.

I recently got an old X-fi Xtreme Music SB0770, I installed the driver pack from Daniel_K (XFI_Support Pack_4_0). There's sound but I don't think it differs from an on-board audio chip. And even if it did, I would still have the problem with all of the software for the card:
Creative Audio Control Panel

Creative Console Launcher.

When I try to run those apps I get the error that says:

"The audio device supported by this application is not detected. The application will now exit."

I turned off HD-Audio in the BIOS (On-board audio solution). Headphones are connected straight to the audio card in the green 3.5 jack, microphone is connected to the card as well. And as I said, there's sound, but the problem is in those programs. AIDA64 loads it as "Creative CA20K1 X-Fi @ Creative CA20K1 X-Fi Xtreme Fidelity Audio Processor", so I'm sure it's not the PCI-E slot issue.

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Creative X-FI Soundcards


Has anyone been successful in getting their X-FI soundcards to work under Windows 10. Mine worked perfectly under Win 7 and when I did the upgrade to WIndows 10, it stopped giving me sound. I just finished over the last couple of days upgrading to the new Creative Drivers and still no sound. I even went as far as to do the update for all the Creative Software and still no joy. Thanks...

Mike

 

No sound in external soundcard

I followed the recommended steps above which did not resolve my problem.

The steps I took to solve the problem:

• Type Device Manager in Windows Search.
• In Device Manager; Locate the sound card (in my case; Creative SB X-Fi)
• Right click that device and select "Uninstall".
• After removal from the list, click "Scan for hardware changes" under "Action" on top tool bar.
• The computer automatically detects the "new" device and re-installs the sound card.
• I'm back in business.

 

Windows 10 update 'unplugged' my laptop soundcard. Help.


Hi;

It seems the last windows update (which i have since rolled back from to no avail) has 'unplugged' my internal soundcard in my alienware m17x r4 (a soundblaster recon 3di).

Turned computer on to find speakers not working and not listed under playback devices, jacks and headphones were however ok.

Today I tried to fix it by uninstalling all creative drivers and reinstalling (hadn't looked at device manager at this point). On trying to reinstall everything kept giving me "no supported device" type errors and wouldn't allow me to put creative drivers or software back on (tried extracting packages, running as admin etc).

Then I had a look at device manager only to find my soundcard was no longer listed but even worse there are no mystery devices to install drivers for. It also won't detect any new hardware. Using the add legacy option only gave me one option from creative as a manufacturer which was totally inappropriate. Dxdiag also shows no soundcard now, and the bios has nothing mentioning a sound device. There are however two entries under system devices in device manager called "high definition audio controller".

After a lot of rebooting I seemed able to install a driver successfully (using an installer, not directly via device manager) and the sb control panel (which I need for my jacks to work), however still no soundcard showing, no speakers and no sound through jacks. Eventually I tried using a program called drivereasy to check my drivers thinnking it might see something i couldn't. Happily I saw it had an entry for an audio device, and even listed it correctly as a recon 3di and offered to download an updated driver. However...it lists the device as unplugged.

How on earth do i force windows to see it again or virtually plug it back in?!

Since 'upgrading' from windows 7 Ive had a few problems with the sound and installing drivers but never had the entire device vanish....even from device manager. At my wits end, googled my arse off, tried a lot of suggestions but am going quietly insane.